A61B 2017/00738
Part of the tool being offset with respect to a main axis
Official title: {part of the tool being offset with respect to a main axis, e.g. for better view for the surgeon}
A61B2017/00738 (Part of the tool being offset with respect to a main axis) appears on 414 US grants and 573 published applications in this corpus.
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